6 Web interface installation

To use any other language than English, its locale should be installed on the web server. See the section in the “User profile” page to find out how to install it if required.

Welcome screen

Open Zabbix frontend URL in a browser. If you have installed Zabbix from packages, the URL is:

• for Apache:

You should see the first screen of the frontend installation wizard.

Check of pre-requisites

Make sure that all software prerequisites are met.

If there is a need to change the Apache user or user group, permissions to the session folder must be verified. Otherwise Zabbix setup may be unable to continue.

Configure DB connection

Enter details for connecting to the database. Zabbix database must already be created.

If the TLS encryption option is checked, then additional fields for to the database appear in the form (MySQL or PostgreSQL only).

Zabbix server details

Enter Zabbix server details.

Entering a name for Zabbix server is optional, however, if submitted, it will be displayed in the menu bar and page titles.

Pre-installation summary

Review a summary of settings.

Install

If installing from sources, download the configuration file and place it under conf/ in the webserver HTML documents subdirectory where you copied Zabbix PHP files to.

Providing the webserver user has write access to conf/ directory the configuration file would be saved automatically and it would be possible to proceed to the next step right away.

Finish the installation.

Log in

Zabbix frontend is ready! The default user name is Admin, password zabbix.